{"id":12,"date":"2006-06-28T10:43:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T10:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2006-06-28T10:43:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T10:43:05","slug":"smtp-settings-and-sendmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"smtp settings and sendmail."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i forgot to mention that i had one element missing from my nagios setup (besides check_mysql, which i still think someone needs to write a better version of): i haven&#8217;t had sendmail running on my linux server in about two years, ever since i learned that optonline.net blocks port 25 (and i liked using my own server for outbound email).<br \/>\ntoday, i decided to change that all, except i didn&#8217;t know what settings to use.  i was fortunate enough to stumble upon this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/files\/smtp_settings.txt\">very cool list of smtp servers<\/a> and my sendmail.cf file was updated in no time.<br \/>\nfor some reason, i still needed sendmail-cf, so i simply ran:<br \/>\n<font face=\"courier\"># yum install sendmail-cf<\/font><br \/>\non my fedora core 5 box, and when i ran<br \/>\n<font face=\"courier\"># make -C \/etc\/mail<\/font><br \/>\neverything started running perfectly.  i already received my backlog of nagios emails that were queued since i installed the software, so i know everything is running smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i forgot to mention that i had one element missing from my nagios setup (besides check_mysql, which i still think someone needs to write a better version of): i haven&#8217;t had sendmail running on my linux server in about two years, ever since i learned that optonline.net blocks port 25 (and i liked using my own server for outbound email). today, i decided to change that all, except i didn&#8217;t know what settings to use. <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/?p=12\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingsofasysadmin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}